goodtimesintv and njbchbum. I appreciate and agree with your resourceful remarks and statistics.
Fraud and abuse in our healthcare system, welfare system etc abounds and government is ineffective in managing these abuses. simply stated the government doesn't care because its only taxpayers money
We suffer greatly now because our government is too large and too complex and too political to be effective. Its a monster out of control. The VA comes to mind
I am by nature against central power. The founders made it clear that the states created the federal government and not the reverse.
In the corporate world while I understood the benefit of a home office I found too often that a home office never understood what field operations people really did
All of this makes me very much a free enterprise aficionado and I believe the better way to achieve nirvana in our health care system vis a vis health insurance system is to open competition countrywide. As to regulations a balance has to be struck between open enrollment and pricing based on realistic underwriting criteria. Perhaps for the truly less fortunate subsidizing is a reality and a must?
But never in my lifetime would I vote for universal healthcare because it will only leads to sub-standards for all of us but the very rich and powerful. Government makes for bad business practices as medicare, Fannie and Freddie etc have shown because its all based on politics which has another name votes
And as Ronald Reagan humorously reminds us "the closest thing to eternal life is a government program. Bad programs never die they are implemented, funded and simply continue under the coverage of darkness
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